Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword by Yuri Dokshitzer
- Introduction by Yuri Dokshitzer and Leonid Frankfurt
- 1 High energy hadron scattering
- 2 Physics of the t-channel and complex angular momenta
- 3 Singularities of partial waves and unitarity
- 4 Properties of Regge poles
- 5 Regge poles in high energy scattering
- 6 Scattering of particles with spin
- 7 Fermion Regge poles
- 8 Regge poles in perturbation theory
- 9 Reggeization of an electron
- 10 Vector field theory
- 11 Inconsistency of the Regge pole picture
- 12 Two-reggeon exchange and branch point singularities in the ℓ plane
- 13 Properties of Mandelstam branch singularities
- 14 Reggeon diagrams
- 15 Interacting reggeons
- 16 Reggeon field theory
- 17 The structure of weak and strong coupling solutions
- Appendix A Space-time description of the hadron interactions at high energies
- Appendix B Character of inclusive spectra and fluctuations produced in inelastic processes by multi-pomeron exchange
- Appendix C Theory of the heavy pomeron
- Index
Foreword by Yuri Dokshitzer
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword by Yuri Dokshitzer
- Introduction by Yuri Dokshitzer and Leonid Frankfurt
- 1 High energy hadron scattering
- 2 Physics of the t-channel and complex angular momenta
- 3 Singularities of partial waves and unitarity
- 4 Properties of Regge poles
- 5 Regge poles in high energy scattering
- 6 Scattering of particles with spin
- 7 Fermion Regge poles
- 8 Regge poles in perturbation theory
- 9 Reggeization of an electron
- 10 Vector field theory
- 11 Inconsistency of the Regge pole picture
- 12 Two-reggeon exchange and branch point singularities in the ℓ plane
- 13 Properties of Mandelstam branch singularities
- 14 Reggeon diagrams
- 15 Interacting reggeons
- 16 Reggeon field theory
- 17 The structure of weak and strong coupling solutions
- Appendix A Space-time description of the hadron interactions at high energies
- Appendix B Character of inclusive spectra and fluctuations produced in inelastic processes by multi-pomeron exchange
- Appendix C Theory of the heavy pomeron
- Index
Summary
This book presents the lecture course given in 1969 at the Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute in Leningrad (now St Petersburg, Russia) by one of the key figures of twentieth century theoretical physics, Vladimir N. Gribov.
The original motivation, brought up by A. Aronov, was for Gribov to present a course on the theory of complex angular momenta that would be understandable for condensed matter physicists. (Those were the days when condensed matter and particle physicists worked hand in hand, shared thoughts, methods and seminars.) The audience consisted of young bright theorists (though some had little or no experience in this specific field). So, to appreciate the book fully and learn from it, the reader should be familiar with the basics of quantum field theory (relativistic invariance, quantum theory of scattering, Feynman diagrams).
The lecture notes were taken down by A. Anselm, Ya. Azimov, A. Bukhvostov, I. Dyatlov, G. Danilov, E. Levin, G. Frolov, V. Gorshkov, L. Lipatov, E. Malkov, V. Shekhter and I.M. Shmushkevich (then in charge of the Ioffe PTI theory department), and edited by L. Frankfurt. E. Kuraev initiated their publication in the form of two voluminous preprints (in Russian) issued by the Kharkov PTI. This informal publication, known as the ‘Kharkov preprint’, immediately became a rarity.
More than 25 years later the effort of preparing an English version of the course was undertaken by E. Kuraev, B. Shaikhatdenov and V. Bytev. The lectures were then edited by G. Korchemsky and L. Lipatov. The final English translation was carried out by V. von Schlippe; the authors of the following Introduction share responsibility for the final scientific editing.
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- The Theory of Complex Angular MomentaGribov Lectures on Theoretical Physics, pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003